Panasonic Lumix DFC-GF2

How would you change Panasonic's Lumix DFC-GF2?

from Engadget by Darren Murph

We're drowning in interchangeable lens options, but that's far from being a bad thing. For those that finally caved and picked up Panasonic's Lumix DFC-GF2, we're interested to see how you'd change things if given that golden opportunity. Are you satisfied with the size, weight and design? How's the low-light performance? Would you alter anything about the lens selection? Introduce a version that changes colors with the seasons? Go on and get creative in comments below -- the GF3 needs some ideas, you know?

We are the Routers - OpenMesh

from TechCrunch by Guest Author
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Editor’s note: Guest author Shervin Pishevar is the founder of the OpenMesh Project, SGN and an active angel investor.
On January 7, 2010 I was ushered into a small private dinner with Secretary Hillary Clinton at the State Department along with the inventor of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google and a few others. We were there to talk about technology and 21st Century Diplomacy. As we mingled I noticed next to me the small table that Thomas Jefferson wrote the first drafts of the Declaration of Independence. I was inspired by the history around us as we discussed the unfolding history before us. I was sitting in front of Secretary Clinton and when she asked me a question I said, “Secretary Clinton, the last bastion of dictatorship is the router.” That night seeded some of the ideas that were core to Secretary Clinton’s important Internet Freedoms Speech on January 21, 2010.
Fast forward almost exactly one year later to January 25, 2011—a day that shall live in history in the company of dates like July 4, 1776. Egypt’s decision to block the entire Internet and mobile telecommunications network was one of the first salvos in a war of electronic munitions. In this new frontier humans are the routers and armed with new technologies they can never be blocked or silenced again.
I was staying up for days sharing and tweeting information as they happened. I had two close personal friends of mine in Egypt who were passing me information when they could. The day Egypt blocked the internet and mobile networks my mind went back to what I had said to Secretary Clinton. The only line of defense against government filtering and blocking their citizens from freely communicating and coordinating via communication networks was to create a new line of communications technologies that governments would find hard to block: Ad hoc wireless mesh networks. I called the idea OpenMesh and tweeted it.
Within hours through crowdsourced volunteer efforts the OpenMesh Project was alive complete with domain name, website and forum. One volunteer, Gary Jay Brooks, a tech entrepreneur from Michigan, stepped up to lead the effort as a volunteer Executive Director. Another company from Canada volunteered to donate their specs for a tiny mobile router, that could be hidden in a pocket, and would cost only $90 per unit for us to make. Another well known communications pioneer stepped up to donate some important patents in this space.
OpenMesh’s basic idea is that we could use some new techniques to create a secondary wireless Internet in countries like Libya, Syria, Iran, North Korea and other repressive regimes to allow citizens to communicate freely. By create mobile routers that connect together we could create a wireless network that mobile phones and personal computers can connect to. The first priority would be to have the people connect together and the second priority is for them to connect to the world. One the second front, we could use intermittent satellite internet connections so people in those nations could upload and download information with the rest of the world. Openmesh aims to be a clearinghouse for the best ideas out there to connect and get products out into the hands of people.
Open Mesh networking is a type of networking wherein each connected node in the network may act as an independent router or “smart” device, regardless of whether it has an Internet connection or not. Mesh networks are incredibly robust, with continuous connections that can reconfigure around broken or blocked paths by “hopping” from node to node until the destination is reached, such as another device on the network or connecting to an Internet back haul. When there is local Internet available, they can amplify the number of people who can connect to it. When there isn’t, mesh networks can allow people to communicate with each other in the event that other forms of electronic communication are broken down. Devices consist of most wifi enabled computers and run on existing Microsoft Windows, Apple OS X, and Linux systems along with iPhone and Android mobile devices. An open source mesh network further offers a scalable solution that retains low costs while avoiding path dependencies and vendor lock-in. Combined with open hardware, these networks facilitate long-term maintenance flexibility and improvements.
We will be establishing, building, maintaining, and distributing a common Open Source Mesh software/firmware that will allow citizens of the world to commonly communicate without telephone or cable companies. The raw product OpenMeshProject.org will free to download and free of charge. The technology will be released and maintained as Open Source GPL V2 project. This means that anyone can use or change the software. Our job as a community will be to maintain this project. We will help to build standards. We will help communities build mesh networks. We will lobby equipment manufactures to join the Open Mesh Project initiative. The idea all revolves around wireless technology that will allow us to connect and communicate with each other without telephone lines, cable, or fiber. We will build private networks that can span countries. We will empower the citizens of tomorrow. At the end of the day a grandmother might find this disk on the street, walk into the house, install a CD on her laptop and join the mesh cloud with 2 clicks. After joining the mesh she starts to see others in her network, clicks to call others in the mesh, joins group calls, or searches for friends online to dial. We as the OpenMeshProject.org community will facilitate the building, offering, and support for this project. We will all build 1 common mesh. We invite people to participate and to offer new innovations. Working together we can secure tomorrows communications needs.
Free communications is an essential human right. The 21st Century will be defined by the idea that no Government, no power shall ever block or filter the right of all men and women to communicate together again. It is my dream that within my lifetime that dictatorship shall be banished from this planet and unfiltered and true democracy shall flourish everywhere. It is time that our Faustian bargains with brutal dictators for short-term concerns end and a new covenant directly made with citizens everywhere seeking freedom will take its place. OpenMesh is a first step to help create a world where such a covenant can take hold in a world where brave people armed with new electronic tools can never be blocked or silenced ever again.
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Garmin takes a licking ... no good news in sight?

Garmin Q4 2010: Revenue Down 21%, EPS Down 51%

Garmin's 2010 operating income by segment

Garmin today reported weak fourth quarter 2010 earnings; the collapse of the PND market (25% unit drop in North America according to TomTom) is by far the reason why Garmin posted revenue down 21 percent ($838 million) and diluted earnings per share down 51percent in the quarter. 

"The automotive/mobile segment revenues declined 31% on a year-over-year basis in the fourth quarter as the PND market declined from the 2009 holiday season, ASPs continued to decline, and significant revenues from bundled lifetime map products were deferred into future periods," wrote Garmin. The company expects the PND market to decline around 10 percent worldwide in units terms in 2011. 

The rest of the market segments have been however performing well: the outdoor and fitness segment revenue increased 15% to $171 million, the aviation segment revenue increased 10% to $71 million and the marine segment revenue increased 9% to $37 million during the fourth quarter. 

Full year 2010 
For the full year 2010 Garmin revenue was $2.69 billion, down 9% from $2.95 billion in 2009. Diluted earnings per share decreased 16% to $2.95 from $3.50 in fiscal year 2009. 

Automotive/Mobile segment revenue decreased 19% to $1.67 billion, Outdoor/Fitness segment revenue increased 19% to $560 million, Aviation segment revenue increased 7% to $263 million and Marine segment revenue increased 12% to $199 million. 

“While 2010 represented a year of adversity for our PND business and our handset initiative, we exit the year with a growing presence in outdoor/fitness, aviation, marine and auto OEM that give us confidence in the long-term outlook for Garmin,” said Dr. Min Kao, chairman and CEO of Garmin 

SONT NEX-3 Discontinued

Sony NEX-3 discontinued, probably has NEX-5 to blame

from Engadget by Vlad Savov

A dark shadow has befallen the Sony NEX-3 interchangeable lens camera, the shadow of being described as "no longer in production" by its maker's official website. Coming out in June of last year alongside its more celebratedNEX-5 brother, the NEX-3 enjoyed some decent success with critics, mostly owing to its oversized 14.2 megapixel sensor, and showed no signs of struggling commercially, however Sony has seen fit to halt production within eight months of its introduction. Reasons haven't yet been given, though we imagine people were willing to spend the extra cash to upgrade to 1080p video recording and a magnesium alloy body on the NEX-5, which is what rendered the NEX-3 expendable. At least we know the NEX-5 and the NEX-VG10 will keep E-mount lensesgoing into the future, so current NEX-3 owners should have little to worry about. If anything, their camera just became that extra bit more exclusive.

Defense - Ouch - Stop ...

Latest procurement reform may create a COTS renaissance

http://www.militaryaerospace.com/index/display/article-display/1943484654/articles/military-aerospace-electronics/volume-22/issue-1/news/trends/latest-procurement-reform-may-create-a-cots-renaissance.html

Jan 1, 2011

By John Keller
Editor in Chief

The year 2011 has to be better than 2010, doesn't it? Last year, Congress approved not even one spending bill-not one. Instead, it looks like the last Congress will leave it to the incoming group of lawmakers to fund fiscal years 2011 and 2012 in the same year. There's even a chance that the 2011 fiscal year, which began on the first of last October, might not even be officially funded until after the president's fiscal 2012 budget request comes out next month.

I have never seen anything like this-never-and I've been covering Washington politics now for nearly 30 years. Somehow it seems that members of Congress-Democrat or Republican-are genetically incapable of doing the right thing, which led us to 2010 when not one single appropriations bill was approved, and when lawmakers instead tried relying on earmark-riddled "continuing resolutions" to keep government running.

A continuing resolution, by the way, is congressional language for failing to get assigned work done on time. It's like begging a college professor for more time on a term paper assigned months before, or asking mom and dad for just one more chance to get overdue chores done to earn the week's allowance. In most places, this kind of tactic doesn't fly, but in Washington...

What we have in Washington is not only an inability to manage the taxpayers' money properly, but also tremendous pressure to cut federal expenditures of all sorts, and defense spending is not going to escape this time. It's a prudent question, then, to ask what's going to happen to companies serving the defense industry, such as the embedded computing business we all hold dear.

Well, it might not be all that bad, depending on whom you talk to. The need for technology insertion and systems upgrades are as pressing as ever, and embedded computing companies are well positioned to get a growing slice of a shrinking pie.

Prime defense contractors-well, that's a different story. The Boeings, Lockheed Martins, Raytheons, and Northrop Grummans of the world are looking at another round of re- inventing themselves, particularly in light of the latest round of military procurement reform: the fixed-price incentive firm target (FPIFT) contract.

These kinds of contracts provide incentives to prime systems integrators to keep costs as low as possible. Yeah, I know, it's been tried before-many times-but this time might be different; this approach invites prime contractors to share cost savings with the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD). If a contractor comes in under budget, the contractor splits that savings with the DOD.

This might be the ticket to real defense procurement reform that keeps military costs under control without compromising military readiness.

I know what you're thinking; I'm skeptical, too. No matter how often we come up with something new to bring defense costs down, it seems to come back to the old system where the defense primes lock the government into long-term procurement and sustainment contracts by packaging proprietary systems cloaked as open-standards technology. This system seeks to control costs by giving prime contractors incentives to beat-up their suppliers to within an inch of their profit margins. What's to keep that from happening again?

I wish I had a good answer. The least I can tell you, however, is this has as good a shot at succeeding as anything else we've seen since the COTS era began in the early 1990s.

I hear tell that these new kinds of contractors could trigger a renaissance in commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) procurement, which since the 1994 Perry Memo has devolved from true off-the-shelf procurement back to pseudo-open-standards procurement. Now there's a chance we can move back toward true off-the-shelf procurement.

Android Relative versus Absolute

Despite 861.5 Percent Growth, Android Market Revenues Remain Puny

from TechCrunch by Erick Schonfeld

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You read the headline “Android Market grows a staggering 861.5 per cent”, and you think, “Wow, Android is really on a tear.” But then you look at the fine print, and you realize that Android Market revenues are still barely registering, and that the only reason they grew so much in 2010 was because in 2009 they were nearly non-existent.
According to a chart making the rounds from UK-based research firm IHS, Android Market revenues in 2010 came in at an estimated $102 million, up from $11 million the year before.
And how did that compare to revenues from Apple’s App Store? Apple App Store revenues came in at an estimated $1.7 billion in 2010, almost 20 times bigger than Android. And Apple App Store revenue grew at a not-too-shabby 131.9 percent rate. More importantly, Apple accounts for 83 percent of the total estimated app store revenues.
It’s great that Android app store revenues are growing so fast, but whenever you see such sky-high numbers, be sure to look at what is the base they are growing from. Android will have to keep growing at astounding rates for a few more years simply to catch up to where Apple’s App Store is today.
If you are an app developer trying to make money, you still really don’t have much of a choice about where to put your apps. No wonder Apple feels like it can treat app developers any way it wants, and take an increasing percentage of their revenues.

FalconFighter - Soldier Sensors

Harris Corp. delivers first FalconFighter Modular Soldier Systems Feb 22, 2011Courtney E. Howard

MELBOURNE, Fla., 22 Feb. 2011. Harris Corp., an international communications and information technology company, has delivered its first FalconFighter Modular Soldier System to a nation in Asia with emerging requirements for video on the battlefield. The systems consist of rugged video cameras, the RF-7800S Secure Personal Radio, power modules, and the new RF-7400E-VP Tactical Video Processor. The TVP captures video from any analog camera worn on the battlefield and prepares it to be transmitted over tactical radio links.
The customer ordered more than 500 FalconFighter systems to provide its military forces with enhanced capabilities for streaming live video from the field to commanders for improved decision-making.
"The FalconFighter is a modular, flexible soldier system that can be configured to meet the widest variety of customer soldier requirements,'' says Andy Start, president, international business unit, Harris RF Communications. "In this case, FalconFighter is addressing requirements for the quick and seamless transmission of video from the field to commanders to aid in decision-making and planning.”
A key component in the first FalconFighter delivery is the RF-7400E-VP, a lightweight body-worn processor that provides advanced streaming video capabilities on the move. The TVP encodes video captured by an analog camera into an advanced video compression standard, reducing bandwidth and storage requirements. The converted video can be sent over Internet Protocol networks. In addition to video processing and compression, the RF-7400E-VP also offers a built-in recorder for post-mission analysis or training purposes. The device will continue to record even when out of range of tactical radio networks.
The RF-7400E-VP is capable of interfacing with all Harris Falcon III radios. It will automatically optimize video parameters in order to leverage bandwidth capabilities on the radio, and draws a consistent power source from tactical radio batteries.
"Peripherals like the RF-7400E dramatically expand the power of wideband networking radio systems now being deployed by military forces around the world,'' Start adds. “This will help feed richer information to the battlefield and result in improved situational awareness and operational decision making."
The RF-7400E comes with the Harris Video Management Application software, which allows users to view and manage multiple video streams via a personal computer or PDA device.

Android Video Formats

Android 2.3.3 gives you another reason to want it: WebM support
from Engadget by Vlad Savov

Our first indication of a delivery date for the Gingerbread iteration of Android came way back in May when we were perusing the FAQ to Google's then newly announced WebM video format. There should be no expressions of shock, therefore, to hear that WebM support has indeed been added into Google's mobile OS, with the lowest compatible version being today's freshly introduced Android 2.3.3. Google has already demonstrated its intention to brute-force this format into our lives, which we'll be quite happy to accept just as soon as Gingerbread starts appearing on more devices than its own Nexi.

Android Video APIs

Android for Army

Army Wants Low-Level Soldiers Linked Into Its Data Nets from Danger Room by Spencer Ackerman

The Army’s on a crash course to get its futuristic information network available down to the lowest possible levels, says its deputy leader, a move that will provide soldiers with a “tremendous advantage that we’ve never had before.”
Speaking at the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C., Gen. Peter Chiarelli hailed the initial development of the Army’s Common Operating Environment as a potential gamechanger for the nation’s ground forces. Its proliferation will pave the way for soldiers to one day get equipped with smartphones, each linked in to access information from across a warzone or back home. It may take years to get networked phones to soldiers, but the Army’s trying to push its networks out to the “squad and team level.”
“It’s taken us way too long to get the network out to the soldiers,” Chiarelli said, lamenting the relative ease with which insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan have been able to communicate and push out their message.
Enter the Common Operating Environment. Unveiled in October, it’s a series of standards by which software developers can design applications that tap into the Army’s data systems, known collectively as its Enterprise Network. Whether that developer is a soldier or works for a defense company, the Common Operating Environment is supposed to guide development of different communications tools, whether they’re radios or smartphones or applications for the phones.
That builds on last year’s big “Apps for the Army” contest — a proving ground to determine whether the Army community has enough developers who can design applications, says Lt. Col. Gregory Motes, head of a new group called the Mobile Applications Branch at Fort Gordon. Nearly 150 participated in the months-long challenge to build apps relevant to the Army; Motes and Capt. Chris Braunstein designed one that digitizes the Army’s physical-training standards.
As the Common Operating Environment matures, more sophisticated applications can be written and more equipment can be linked in to the Enterprise Network. Chiarelli said testing is still ongoing: in “June and July” he’ll observe a test of Rifleman Radio, a network-compliant radio system built by General Dynamics that allows squad and team leaders to get GPS coordinates on exactly where their soldiers are.
The Common Operating Environment is designed to be agnostic to any particular platform, instead elaborating the technical requirements that apps have to meet. Its goal is interoperability, in its founding document’s words, so data is “available anywhere on the network to authorized users from any suitable Army-managed device.”
“I’m not into any particular smartphone,” Chiarelli tells Danger Room,”I just happen to carry an iPhone for my own personal use…. We can already see the benefit for the squad and team leader.” That is, the rapid availability of data from across the Army, all over the world, into a soldier’s mobile device — from intelligence reports to drone video to local-language phrasebooks — if the bandwidth is available.
Those are questions that Motes’ team at the Army’s Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) are still studying. Is there enough bandwidth when soldiers are out in the middle of nowhere for accessing the networks? (Darpa’s trying to solve that problem.) What’s the best operating system for soldier smartphones and app generation? Should there be a particular phone issued, or is it better to issue requirements for operating across the Common Operating Environment and leave it for the market to sort out and update for soldiers to buy?
Troops at Fort Bliss have been experimenting with smartphones in a simulated war environment for the past year. Mike McCarthy, a civilian out at Bliss with the Brigade Modernization Command and one of the officials in charge of exploring smartphone use, tells Danger Room that a consensus exists within his TRADOC group that the time has come to equip soldiers with the phones, and expects the Army to make a top level decision on issuance this year. If the Army decides to go the smartphone route, it’ll still take years to get Common Operating Environment-compliant phones, hooked into to the Army Enterprise Network, out to soldiers.
But it’s the environment that standardizes app development and paves the way. Asked by Danger Room if troops could have their phones before the U.S. leaves Afghanistan, Chiarelli says, “I see that happening very, very soon.”

NGA GeoTras Coordiante Converter

GeoTrans Coordinate Converter Updated To Version 3.1

from geo2web.com by geo2web

Long time ago, I posted about the GeoTrans Coordinate Converter from the National GeoSpatial Intelligence Agency, version 2.4. Just noticed the it’s now up to version 3.1 as of about a month ago. Based on the PDF release notes, externally it looks like just minor GUI changes and bug fixes from version 2.4. Support for [...] Related posts:

1. Coordinate Converters II – Worldwide Coordinate Conversion
2. Coordinate Converters III – Two Freeware Converters
3. Coordinate Converters I – NAD Conversions

Broadband for your too??

National Broadband Map shows high-speed Internet options

updated 04:35 pm EST, Thu February 17, 2011

US government launches National Broadband Map

The Obama administration on Thursday allowed access to the National Broadband Map it has just created. The new online service lets consumers and researchers find details on what broadband connections are available to them, how many there are and where they are. The map is a product of more than a year of work and $40 million in federal stimulus funding.

Users can find a new broadband provider and the kind of speeds they offer simply by entering a street address. Researchers can export or manipulate the data. The map is created and maintained by Commerce Department agencies. Its information will be updated twice a year and the map will be used over the course of the next five years.

Congress has earmarked $200 million for the map. A Census survey released on Thursday showed nearly 68 percent of US households subscribed to broadband services in 2010. It also revealed between 5 and 10 percent of American households don't have access to broadband Internet service, mostly in rural areas.[via Wall Street Journal]

Read more: http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/02/17/us.government.launches.national.broadband.map/#ixzz1EJoisX6s

Codec Confusions: H.264 versus WebM

Fear and Loathing in Online Video: The Video Codec Conundrum Continues
(via ReelSEO Video Marketing)

My last post described, what Google’s decision to drop H.264 from Chrome in favor of its own WebM format means for you, and concluded that this situation creates even more complexity video publishers, along with the potential of a massive increase in video publishing costs.

It’s been almost two weeks now since Google made that announcement and commentary across the web all led to a similar conclusion – that Flash video is the winner in this latest codec conundrum, and now the safest bet for publishing video for the web.

Many have both lauded and lambasted Google’s decision while many others have shrugged it off as not being a really a big deal.

Regardless of the debate around “open” and “closed” standards and patents or codecs and containers – the net result of Google’s decision affects the entire ecosystem of video content creators, publishers, developers and advertisers and has created an atmosphere of fear and loathing in online video.

Google replies to criticism

Google defended its decision in follow up post on the Chromium Blog: More about the Chrome HTML Video Codec Change, where Google Product Manager Mike Jazayeri addressed some of the key questions.

Regarding Google’s decision to support WebM for HTML 

We believe there is great promise in the (video) tag and want to see it succeed. As itstands, the organizations involved in defining the HTML video standard are at an impasse. There is no agreement on which video codec should be the baseline standard. Firefox and Opera support the open WebM and Ogg Theora codecs and will not support H.264 due to its licensing requirements; Safari and IE9 support H.264. With this status quo, all publishers and developers using the

This is not an ideal situation and we want to see a viable baseline codec that all browsers can support. It is clear that there will not be agreement to specify H.264 as the baseline codec in the HTML video standard due to its licensing requirements. Furthermore, we genuinely believe that core web technologies need to be open and community developed to enable the same great innovation that has brought the web to where it is today. These facts led us to join the efforts of the web community and invest in an open alternative, WebM.

Jazayeri admitted that H.264 has broader support in the publisher, developer, and hardware community today but due to its licensing requirements and patent royalties, which could potentially increase over time, it could not back it as the baseline in the HTML video standard. He reiterated Google’s vision to create “open innovation” for video on the web, and that its significant investment in making WebM an open platform for development was proof of that. 
But Google was not abandoning H.264 altogether, Jazayeri said, and pointed out that the majority of H.264 videos on the web are viewed in plug-ins such as Flash and Silverlight, and H.264 will continue to be supported in Chrome through a plug-in as well. He admitted that this decision will force publishers to create multiple versions of their videos, but argued that it was already the case since Firefox and Opera never supported H.264 in the HTML

Additionally, Google is already doing that with YouTube videos and with the proliferation of mobile devices, platforms, and connectivity types across the web, he added that most content providers already produce multiple versions of their videos. Google is confident that WebM will emerge as a viable and compelling solution for publishers and the WebM Project team will soon release plugins that enable WebM support in Safari and IE9 via the HTML standard Jazayeri’s final point acknowledged the elephant in the room:

Bottom line, we are at an impasse in the evolution of HTML video. Having no baseline codec in the HTML specification is far from ideal. This is why we’re joining others in the community to invest in WebM and encouraging every browser vendor to adopt it for the emerging HTML video platform. Our choice was to make a decision today and invest in open technology to move the platform forward, or to accept the status quo of a fragmented platform where the pace of innovation may be clouded by the interests of those collecting royalties. Seen in this light, we are choosing to bet on the open web and are confident this decision will spur innovation that benefits users and the industry.

100 Million Smartphones

Smartphones Take on PCs: Significant Historical Moment

February 16, 2011By: Janice Partyka

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Wireless Pulse, February 2011

It is a significant first, an iconic moment, a big deal. You will want to remember where you were when you heard that smartphones started to outsell personal computers. According to a report by market research company IDC, consumer electronics makers shipped 100.9 million smartphones worldwide in the last three months of 2010, an 87 percent jump from a year earlier. PC shipments didn’t do as well, edging up just three percent to 92.1 million. The falling prices of smartphones have contributed to this trend. The numbers are skewed by the longer life of a computer compared to a smartphone, which frequently is replaced within two years. For many of us, one doesn’t supplant the need for the other.

Augment my reality. I’m not the only one charmed by Wikitude (no, not WikiLeaks) from Austrian-based Mobilizy. I took a walk around a hotel parking lot with Wikitude’s Philipp Breuss-Schneeweis imagining the possibilities of Wikitude Drive, augmented-reality navigation for vehicles or pedestrians. Intended as a heads-up display, it is currently shown as a smartphone mounted on a dashboard that displays the scene ahead of you, exactly as you see it with your eyes. However, the navigation route is drawn on top of the real scene. There is an option, particularly important at night, to switch out of augmented reality to see the route as a street map. Wikitude Drive was the grand prize winner of the 2010 NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge. World Browser, another product by Wikitude, identifies objects around you. Point your phone and it will (try to) identify your surroundings, such as landmarks, mountains, or buildings.                                                                                               

Smartphones Dominate